We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …

We develop a network model looking at the role of different types of peers in education. The empirical salience of the … and persistent peer effects in education but peers tend to be influential only when their friendships last more than a …

develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … in the fourth wave in 2007-2008 (when adult). We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but …

insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …